[PLUG] soundcard annoyance
Vincent Yau
v_yau3 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 14 05:52:22 UTC 2004
Hi:
I have a box that I upgraded to Fedora 2 (kernel 2.6.8) earlier
this summer. I noticed after I upgraded that my soundcard
won't work until I run a tool from the gnome menu
that detects soundcard by playing a sound. And then my audio would work
fine.
I did not play much attention to it since I seldom need the sound function
on this box.
This weekend, I upgraded another box to Fedora 3 (kernel 2.6.9) and
notice the exact same problem. No sound until I
run that soundcard detection tool from the menu (which is a python script).
Running "alsactl restore" from the command line seems
to help (so I put his line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local) but not always reliable.
The most reliable mechanism is still running that soundcard detection tool
under
my menu.
lspci detects the right sound card on both boxes.
/etc/modprobe.conf has a bunch of lines that
seems to relate to setting up the sound card. But evidently,
it isn't working very well.
------------- modprobe.conf -------------
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
options sb support=1
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install
sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
:; }
remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1
|| :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0
options snd-card-0 index=0
install via82cxxx_audio /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install via82cxxx_audio &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove via82cxxx_audio { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove via82cxxx_audio
-----------------------------------------------------------
Can someone suggest why my box does not have audio until
I run that soundcard detection program? Any tips on how
to fix this will be great. Thanks!
--Vincent
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